Improved treadle-stand



i fr' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.4

HENRY c. sPALDiNe, or BROOKLYN7 NRW YORK.

i IMPRovED TREADLE-STAND.

` Specification forming part of Letters `Eratent No. t-SglSQdated February 22, 1,859.

.To all whom, 6 may concern.'

Be it known that I, HENRY C. SPALDING, of

Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of spending parts in the several figures.

`This invention relates to a new and improved self-sustaining treadle frame or stand for sewing-machines.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention7 I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

A represents a table on which the sewing-u machine is to be placed; B, the treadle; C, the treadle-shaft; D, the crank and crank-shaft; E, the connecting rod or pitman. All of these may be made in the ordinary manner and similar to those in common use; but in order to obviate the diiculties arising from the shakiness of some of those now used, the trouble in packing and expense of shipping others, and the excessive weight of them all rendering it difficult to move them about the house when used in the family, I have constructed the frame as follows;

F represents a frame, which is made in one piece. It consists of two parts., a b, and two cast therewith, are secured to the back frame,

Fig. l, by means of the fourscrews, g 7L e' j, thus forming the stand of three ilat skeletons,

which,when combined, possess in an eXtraordinary degree lightness and strength.

The frame, it is evident, may often be used to advantage in other than sewing-machines.

What I claim as my invention, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent as a new and improved article of manufacture, is-

A selfsustaining skeleton tre'adle frame composed of sections secured together at right angles, substantially as described, so that the frame is self-braced crosswise and lengthwise with the table which it supports. l

. H. C. SPALDING. VitnesSes:

O. P. HATFIELD, JOHN WHYTR. 

